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Iran Warns Will Hit Back At US If Attacked Tehran, Feb 8 (AFP) Feb 08, 2007 
Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Thursday warned that Iran would hit back at American interests worldwide if the United States attacked the Islamic republic to thwart its nuclear programme. "They should not intimidate the Iranian people with these things, since the United States has previously attacked Iran," Khamenei said, referring to repeated speculation that Washington plans to strike Iran's nuclear facilities. "The enemies understand well that the Iranian nation will give a comprehensive response to the aggressors and their interests worldwide," Khamenei added, according to state-run television.
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Iranian Statecraft Makes For Theaters Of The Absurd
Washington (UPI) Feb 08, 2007Iran's man at the United Nations since 2002, Javad Zarif, spoke with Washington think tankers and pundits for two hours. It was a virtuoso diplomatic performance, albeit off the record, and by satellite (as he is not allowed to travel beyond a 25-mile radius from Manhattan), which won him sustained applause from his American interlocutors. Iran Denounces Blair Comments As Insolent 
Tehran (AFP) Feb 8, 2007Iran on Thursday denounced as "insolent" comments by British Prime Minister Tony Blair that there is growing alarm at Tehran's defiance of the international community on its nuclear programme. "The insolent and diplomatically uncommon comments by Mr Blair emanate from extreme notions and (are) ethically worthless," Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said in a statement. White House Says No Plan To Invade; Iran Says Missile Tests No Threat To Gulf Fleet 
Washington (AFP) Feb 8, 2007The White House underscored Thursday that it has no plans to invade Iran, and downplayed the significance of reinforcing the US military presence in the Gulf region. White House spokesman Tony Snow made the remarks in response to comments Thursday by Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, warning that Iran will hit back at US interests worldwide if it is attacked. |
North Korea Prepared To Discuss Scrapping Nukes
Beijing (AFP) Feb 8, 2007North Korea will discuss at six-nation talks here Thursday the prospect of dismantling its nuclear programme, but the outcome depends on the United States, the isolated nation's envoy said. Kim Kye-Gwan told reporters he was prepared to talk about recommitting to a deal made in the six-party forum in September 2005, in which North Korea agreed to scrap its nuclear programme in return for aid and security guarantees. Optimistic Note At North Korea Talks 
Seoul (UPI) Feb 08, 2007Can this week's international talks on North Korea's nuclear drive reach a written agreement in which the defiant communist country would take steps to dismantle its nuclear weapons in return for economic and political benefits? Officials and some analysts in Seoul sounded a note of optimism about the first tangible progress at the four-year-old six-nation nuclear talks, saying this round of negotiations, which opened Thursday. Congressional Research Service Skepticism On BMD Grows 
Washington (UPI) Feb 08, 2007The U.S. armed forces have demonstrated no learning curve in their development of kinetic energy interceptors to destroy incoming ballistic missiles, an updated congressional report claims. The report is entitled "Kinetic Energy Kill for Ballistic Missile Defense: A Status Overview." |
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Northrop Grumman Checks Out Sensors On New Air Force Weather Satellite
Baltimore, Feb 08, 2007Five weather and space environmental sensors onboard the recently launched Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) satellite, F-17, have been switched on and are operating successfully, according to Northrop Grumman, the Air Force's DMSP sensor management contractor. US Wants More NATO Troops To Defeat Taliban 
Seville (AFP) Spain, Feb 8, 2007NATO defence ministers gathered Thursday to hear a United States appeal for more troops and equipment to confront a growing threat from Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan. US Defence Secretary Robert Gates will warn the ministers, during two days of talks in Seville, southern Spain, that time is running out to blunt the insurgency, with the Taliban likely to mount a new offensive in coming weeks. Northrop Grumman Delivers Payload For First Advanced EHF Military Communications Satellite 
Redondo Beach CA (SPX) Feb 09, 2007Northrop Grumman has delivered the payload module for the first Advanced Extremely High Frequency (EHF) military communications satellite ahead of schedule to the Sunnyvale, Calif., facilities of Lockheed Martin, prime contractor for the Advanced EHF program. |
Operation Alamo
Washington (UPI) Feb 08, 2007According to the conventional wisdom, President Bush's new strategy may be the last opportunity for the United States to salvage, at best, limited success in Iraq. Failure to stem Iraq's descent into total chaos and civil war will lead to regional instability and negatively affect America's strategic influence in the Middle East for years to come. No Link Found In Iraq Helicopter Crashes: DoD 
Washington (AFP) Feb 8, 2007The US military has not established a link connecting five US helicopter crashes in Iraq over the past three weeks, a Pentagon spokesman said Thursday. "Clearly, each time we have an aircraft go down, we take a look at it, and given the proximity of these events happening together, we'll have people looking at them not only as individual events but collectively, as to whether or not there is any correlation," spokesman Bryan Whitman told reporters. The Shiite Strategy In Iraq 
Washington (UPI) Feb. 6, 2007U.S. President George W. Bush's splurge is already bringing premature claims of success, even though the first troops are just arriving in Iraq. A column in the Jan. 29 Washington Times by retired Marine Col. Oliver North quotes an American officer in Iraq as saying, "Do they (Members of Congress opposed to the war) even know that in the last two weeks we have set AQI (al-Qaida in Iraq) and the Mahdi Army both back on their heels?" |
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